Remembering our journey

As requested, here are the prompts for our guided meditation on our incredible journey!!

After  leading you through the relaxation we asked you to steady your mind, your heart, your breath and remember the…

First moment you heard one of our voices on the phone talking to you about the adventure ahead

New faces in San Francisco

First massage circle on the floor and the dance party in the dark ping pong room

Sex, drugs and poop

Our favorite red haired Texan, Josh

The torrential downpour, flooded streets and the crazy escapade ordering in pizza

Pimped out bus ride to the crater

Nicaraguan family sunday outing en route to Matagalpa.

Sunday lunch in a bar

Cruisin thru town in the back of a pick up truck. Arrival? Your very first host familiesThe revolution will be feminist or not at all

Where are the umpa lumpas?

The plague! Tyler locked in his room, Taylor’s midnight hospital visit

Rico Sauve

The gazelle and the lion

Cotton eyed joe!

Jello and chips. Breakfast of champions.

Loomin volcanoes and a ferry to the island

Noooot riiiiiiight nooooooow

Ryann trekking through a cowfield on one foot

Open air bamboo beds, bugs and “bungalows”

The worst dance class ever

Machetying, swailing, wood chippin, dirt hauling and SWEAT

Petey always going to get shampoo

The cow slaughter at dawn

Never ending tours

Who ate the cookies? Banana bread? Chocolate?

Endless hours of wrapping nacatamales

Marvin loves turtles

Insane amounts of baby turtles

Captain D loves the cops

There’s been a robbery on the reserve!

Twilight nursery chats

Arctic air conditioning at the fancy house

Big waves and BIGGER biggie flaps

Alfredo, man of the year!

Communal slumber party at G 22

Alfredo….Mayan heartthrob

Way too many hours in a tiny sizzling hot shuttle

The parade of dropping you all off at your host families

Freddy

A train of kids following us everywhere

Foggy tombstones and New chicken

The “short hike” to the river, waiting…and waiting…and running home in the rain

Awkward gringos banging on cups

Ben and his knife

Crafting bread animals and gorging on fresh rolls

The incredible, mind blowing performance by Taylor and Mariah

Shrimp eyeball soup for breakfast and coffee for dinner

Xela, breath of fresh air

Lookin forward to coffee and bread at 10:30

New families and cold nights

Guacamole and fireworks

Big macs and shopping at last

Real salsa classes, futbol games and epic girls nights out

20 km in one day?!

Hot sauna, cold rain, and cement floors

Mira ingeniously getting the car unstuck

A near photoshopped sunrise over the lake, clouds parting for a blazing sun

The count and his lair

Caaaalifornia girls….ZUMBA!

Gringos with forehead dots

Crystal, emerald lake

Jumping off platforms, morning kayaks and steamy little saunas

How privileged are we?

666

Love conquers Fear

Anna and Taylor rockin’ it, despite Taylor’s epic sickness

Celina and Petey, casas!

Buffet feasts, hammocks, a rockin restaurant and rolling river at el Retiro

Candlelit Indiana Jones…scalin underground cliffs and jumping into blackness

River swing, tubing, shivering and leaping off a bridge

Hunger games and rooftop brunch

Endless shopping and good grub

Torn apart on a runway. Reunited in paradise.

Floating in underwater galaxies

Crazy booty dancing and earnin points!

Eels, turtles and friends

Shimmering lake lit by moon, dinner under the stars

Sun, sand, and each other in hand

 

Much love,

Noah and Julia